Wild Rangelands

Conserving Wildlife While Maintaining Livestock in Semi-Arid Ecosystems
Herausgeber: Du Toit, Johan T; Deutsch, James; Kock, Richard

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Rangelands, which include unimproved grasslands, shrublands, savannas and semi-deserts, and represent almost half of the terrestrial surface of the Earth, are defined by their use by people as grazing lands for extensive livestock production. However, these ecosystems also constitute a major share of global biodiversity, include some of the most charismatic landscapes and species on our planet, and supply essential ecosystem goods and services to many millions of people who live outside of the global economy. Reconciling livestock production with wildlife conservation is thus a key requirement of sustainable development, but the obstacles are immense. The contributors to this book include leading experts who have pooled their experiences from all continents to cover the ecological, sociological, political, veterinary, and economic aspects of the situation as it exists today. This is to provide practitioners, and students of rangeland management and wildland conservation with a diversity of perspectives on a central question: can rangelands be wildlands?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 862g
• ISBN-13: 9781405177856
• ISBN-10: 1405177853
• Artikelnr.: 27876872

Autorenporträt

Johan T. du Toit is a professor at Utah State University, where he is the Head of the Department of Wildland Resources. He is especially interested in the ecology of large mammals and the conservation of terrestrial ecosystems through the fusion of science and management. Richard Kock is a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and specialist in wildlife medicine. He has worked with a focus on wildlife health and conservation, livestock and mixed wildlife/livestock communities and in rangelands throughout his career. He has worked for the Zoological Society of London for 26 years and now works in the African and South Asian region looking at wildlife health programmes in wild rangelands. James Deutsch directs the Africa Program of the Wildlife Conservation Society, with over a thousand staff working to save globally important landscapes and species in twelve African countries. James has lectured at the University of East Anglia and Imperial College, helped found the Tropical Biology Association and AIDS Treatment Project, ran Crusaid, and chairs Aidspan.

Inhaltsangabe

Contributors vii

Preface xv

Foreword by Anthony R.E. Sinclair and George B. Schaller xix

1. Introduction: A Review of Rangeland Conservation Issues in anUncertain Future 1
Monica L. Wrobel and Kent H. Redford

Part I Thematic Reviews 13

2. Riding the Rangelands Piggyback: A Resilience Approach toConservation Management 15
Brian Walker

3. Addressing the Mismatches between Livestock Production andWildlife Conservation across Spatio-temporal Scales andInstitutional Levels 30
Johan T. du Toit

4. Rangeland Conservation and Shrub Encroachment: NewPerspectives on an Old Problem 53
Steven R. Archer

5. Health and Disease in Wild Rangelands 98
Richard Kock, Mike Kock, Sarah Cleaveland and GavinThomson

6. Contemporary Views of Human-Carnivore Conflicts on WildRangelands 129
Alexandra Zimmermann, Nick Baker, Chloe Inskip, John D.C.Linnell, Silvio Marchini, John Odden, Gregory Rasmussen and AdrianTreves

7. Financial Incentives for Rangeland Conservation: Addressingthe 'Show-Us-the-Money' Challenge 152
Ray Victurine and Charles Curtin

Part II Case Studies 189

8. Biodiversity Conservation in Australian Tropical Rangelands191
Stephen T. Garnett, John C.Z. Woinarski, Gabriel M. Crowley andAlex S. Kutt

9. Livestock Grazing and Wildlife Conservation in the AmericanWest: Historical, Policy and Conservation Biology Perspectives235
Thomas L. Fleischner

10. GuanacoManagement inPatagonianRangelands:AConservationOpportunity on the Brink of Collapse 266
Ricardo Baldi, Andrés Novaro, Martín Funes,SusanWalker, Pablo Ferrando, Mauricio Failla and PabloCarmanchahi

11. Multiple Use of Trans-Himalayan Rangelands: ReconcilingHuman Livelihoods withWildlife Conservation 291
CharuduttMishra, Sumanta Bagchi, Tsewang Namgail and Yash VeerBhatnagar

12. Herders and Hunters in a Transitional Economy: TheChallengeof Wildlife and Rangeland Management in Post-socialist Mongolia312
Katie M. Scharf, María E. Fernández-Giménez,Batjav Batbuyan and Sumiya Enkhbold

13. Social and Economic Challenges for Conservation in EastAfrican Rangelands: Land use, Livelihoods and Wildlife Change inMaasailand 340
Katherine Homewood and D. Michael Thompson

14. The Future for Wildlife on Kenya's Rangelands: AnEconomic Perspective 367
Michael Norton-Griffiths and Mohammed Y. Said

15. Synthesis: Local and Global Solutions to the Challenge ofKeeping Rangelands Wild 393
James C. Deutsch

Index 403

Rezensionen

"That said, 'Wild rangelands' provides an extensive andup-to-date treatment of challenges and issues for rangelandconservation, and the plight of those who rely on livestock forlivelihoods is strongly drawn into both the case studies and themore conceptual chapters. Hence, 'Wild rangelands' willprovide an informative and useful volume from a variety ofperspectives." (Pastoralism: Research, Policy & Practice, 2011)

"In conclusion, Wild Rangelands is a must-read for researchers,conservationists and ranchers alike and should be included inuniversity wildlife biology teaching curricula to facilitate astronger grounding of biology graduates in the broader socialissues affecting conservation today." (African Journal of Range andForage Science, 2011)